At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage product lifecycle, analyse sales performance, and collaborate cross-functionally for successful launches.
- Company: MacGregor Black partners with a leading consumer goods business in Surrey for this role.
- Benefits: This is a permanent opportunity with a hybrid working model.
- Other info: Comfortable working with data and product information management tools is essential.
- Why this job: Drive product strategy and innovation within a dynamic and growing portfolio.
- Qualifications: Minimum of 2 years’ experience in product management within consumer goods required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
Do you have experience managing the full product lifecycle within a consumer goods environment? Are you commercially driven, with the ability to identify growth opportunities through product performance and market insight? Do you thrive in a cross-functional role, collaborating with sales, marketing, and supply chain to deliver successful product launches?
This role will play a pivotal part in driving product strategy, innovation, and lifecycle management across a dynamic and growing portfolio. You will combine strong commercial awareness with hands-on product management capability, working cross-functionally to identify opportunities, launch new products, and optimise existing ranges.
Key Responsibilities- Analyse product sales performance, market trends, and competitor activity to identify opportunities for new product development, range extensions, and portfolio optimisation.
- Develop and present business cases for new product initiatives, including costings, pricing strategy, margin expectations, and sales forecasts.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to drive product innovation, including reformulations and new product introductions.
- Identify and onboard third-party manufacturers and suppliers to introduce complementary product ranges, including drop-ship solutions.
- Support commercial teams in managing the full product lifecycle, including range reviews, SKU rationalisation, and product discontinuations.
- Own product set-up and administration across business systems, ensuring accurate SKU creation, product documentation, and asset management.
- Work cross-functionally with planning, production, operations, and warehousing teams to ensure readiness for product launches.
- Partner with marketing to define product positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies, including packaging, labelling, and campaign assets.
- Support the development of compelling product propositions aligned to customer needs and brand positioning.
- Manage ongoing product requirements, including documentation updates, labelling changes, and regulatory compliance.
- Collaborate with supply chain and manufacturing teams to deliver accurate demand forecasting, ensuring alignment with promotional and marketing activity.
- Act as a key stakeholder for product information systems, ensuring consistency and accuracy of product data across all channels.
- Maintain comprehensive product documentation to support successful product launches and ongoing lifecycle management.
- Support pricing strategy and margin analysis in partnership with commercial, marketing, and finance teams.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a product management or similar role, ideally within consumer goods or a fast-paced commercial environment.
- Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to analyse data and translate insights into actionable product strategies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail, capable of managing multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
- Comfortable working with systems, data, and product information management tools.
- Proactive, self-motivated, and able to manage workloads independently while contributing to wider team objectives.
If you would like more information on this opportunity, please contact Dan Hookway.
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